Short bio

Manuel Hermenegildo received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science
and Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in
1986. From January 1, 2007 to May 31, 2017 he was the founding
Director of the IMDEA Software Institute, where he now continues as
Distinguished Professor. He is also a full Prof. of Computer Science
at the Tech. U. of Madrid, UPM. Previously to joining the IMDEA
Software Institute he held the P. of Asturias Endowed Chair in
Information Science and Technology at the U. of New Mexico, USA. He
was also project leader at the MCC research center and Adjunct
Assoc. Prof. at the CS Department of the U. of Texas, both in Austin,
Texas, USA.

He has published more than 200 refereed scientific papers
and monographs and has given numerous keynotes and invited talks in
major conferences in these areas. He has also been coordinator and/or
principal investigator of many national and international projects,
area editor of several journals, and chair, PC chair, PC member, and
member of the steering board of a good number of conferences. He has
received the Julio Rey Pastor Spanish National Prize in Mathematics
and Information Science and Technology and the Aritmel National prize
in Computer Science, and is one of the most cited Spanish authors in
Computer Science. He is also an elected member of the Academia
Europaea.

He is a member of the scientific boards of Dagstuhl and INRIA and
vice-President of Informatics Europe. He has been elected President
of the International Association for Logic Programming, as well as
member of the executive committee of the European Association for
Programming Languages and Systems, and several other international
committees.

Previously he served as General Director of the Spanish scientific research
funding agency (2000-2002) and as a member of the EU IST Advisory Group
(ISTAG), the board of directors of the Foundation for Science and Technology,
the Scientific Research Council, the Center for Industrial and Technological
Development, and as the Spanish representative in the EU Advisory Committee for
Research (CREST), among other appointments.